Re: http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/
----- Mail original -----
> De: "Charles Plessy" <plessy@debian.org>
> À: debian-med@lists.debian.org
> Envoyé: Mardi 28 Juin 2016 03:25:12
> Objet: Re: http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/
>
> Le Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:21:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:14:55PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> > > Hi Charles,
> > >
> > > http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/ seems unavailable, connections
> > > remain waiting.
> >
> > Charles, I think you should do
> >
> > echo "upstream-metadata in a 117.121.245.165" | gpg --clearsign |
> > mail changes@db.debian.org
> >
> > If I remember correctly it was on the same host as blends.debian.net
> > and this was moved by GPLhost.
>
> Hi Olivier and Andreas,
>
> I just updated the IP address, thanks for the hint. I realised some time ago
> that the service was unavailable, but I thought it was caused by the upgrade
> to Jessie...
>
> The fact that Olivier is the first to report the problem in public suggests
> that not many people have a use of this service. Earlier this year, I
> started
> a discussion about terminating upstream-metadata.debian.net and there was not
> much objections against it.
>
> In 2014, the service was affected by a bug that I could not resolve, and I
> could not get any help for it.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2014/06/msg00022.html
>
> Altogether I am blocked and it is clear that I will not be able to provide
> a good quality of service alone.
Well, maybe in this case, service should be stopped and website reference removed from metadata related Wiki. By the way, the git repo referenced does not exists either.
Olivier
>
> As a pet project, I tried a couple of times to reimplement the whole system
> in Haskell, but I still have to iron out my skills on simple issues such as
> the handling of command-line options, etc.
>
> Altogether, while I am satisfied that I could start this project and provide
> a
> prototype, I also realise that the design is very naive, for instance I admit
> that I do not know what would happen in case of concurrent access to the
> database.
>
> So in my opinion, it can not continue at a one-man project.
>
> Have a nice day
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>
>
Reply to: